
Animation Studies
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Founded in 1987 the Society for Animation Studies (SAS) is an international organization dedicated to the study of animation history and theory.
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In this latest podcast, Christopher Holliday and Alex Sergeant try and do justice to the global stardom of the most famous animated character of them all - Mickey Mouse - by tackling three cartoon shorts with Golden Age animation expert David McGowan (University of the Arts London)! fantasy-animation.org/all-episodes/e…



New blog post! The folks at the Delhi-based Amazdraw studio explore the Phenakistoscope, a proto-animated form using spinning discs and slits to trick your eyes into seeing motion. Read all about this forgotten gadget and its influence on animated imagery! fantasy-animation.org/current-posts/…

Christopher Holliday and Alex Sergeant are again joined by David McGowan to map the mythology of the Golden Age of Animation, and how this phase of the medium’s history has often been framed according to its stability and security as an industrial art form. fantasy-animation.org/footnote-episo…

New blog post! This week, Melbourne-based 3D artist Reonaldi Praditya focuses on character arcs within animation and, using a practice-based research method, explores his animation project Baby’s Quest (2024) to reflect on its unconventional narrative. fantasy-animation.org/current-posts/…

The latest Fantasy/Animation podcast was recorded live at the recent Popular Culture Association Conference in New Orleans, where Alex Sergeant took part in a roundtable discussion on Amazon’s prequel series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power! fantasy-animation.org/all-episodes/e…


New blog post! Andrew Barrow looks at the Japanese Tokusatsu media genre and the curious case of the Kamen Rider franchise, a programme that is "verifiably huge in Japan but with a light presence in other countries," with this examination of Kamen Rider W. fantasy-animation.org/current-posts/…

The cultural pervasiveness of animated media is the focus of this new Footnote tackling “Pervasive Animation” as understood within Suzanne Buchan’s 2013 anthology of the same name, including the challenges posed by animation as a complex scholarly object! fantasy-animation.org/footnote-episo…


To mark the return of the Fantasy/Animation archive instalments, Christopher Holliday and Alex Sergeant delve into the podcast’s back catalogue for this relisten of Episode 70 and their discussion of Space Jam (1996) featuring special guest Paul Wells! fantasy-animation.org/all-episodes/a…



New blog post! Lisa Klonis and Dr Anna-Sophie Jürgens examine “living weapons” within Japanese animation and contemporary climate fiction animation, and how these figures of destruction invite questions of responsibility, restraint, and scientific mismanagement. fantasy-animation.org/current-posts/…

